Visualizing Japanese-ness: Transnational Cinema in Modern Japan
CEAS 241
Fall 2020 not offered
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This course is designed to interrogate evolving notions of transnationalism in Japanese cinema, from the prewar avant-garde to the postcolonial present. We will use the assigned films and supplementary readings as a means to explore concepts of Japanese nationalism and uniqueness (nihonjinron), colonial memory, hybridity, multiculturalism, neoliberalism, and creolization, among others. We will then use this theoretical foundation to analyze representations of Japanese minority groups (such as zainichi Koreans) to inquire into the possibility of obtaining a transnational or hybrid identity in the global era. How do these films "visualize" Japanese and/or transnational identity, and are these visions seen as compatible? In what ways and to what extent are these films engaged in a dialogue with theoretical concepts of postcoloniality and ethnicity? |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CEAS |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CEAS-MN)(CEAS)(CEAS-Lit&Cult) |
Major Readings:
Kinugasa Teinosuke, A PAGE OF MADNESS (film)
Seiji Lippit, TOPOGRAPHIES OF JAPANESE MODERNISM
Nakahira Ko, CRAZED FRUIT (film)
Ann Sherif, JAPAN'S COLD WAR
Leo Ching, BECOMING JAPANESE
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly response papers, student presentation, midterm paper, final paper |
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